About BCD Travel

When business travelers need to get somewhere PDQ, they call BCD Travel. The company is a leading provider of corporate travel services, operating in more than 1,500 locations in 90-plus countries. Its TripSource: Portal offers online booking, expense management tools, and personalized travel information (including flight alerts and destination guides – more...for 300 major cities worldwide). The company also offers travel consulting services through its Advito unit. Chairman John Fentener van Vlissingen's BCD Holdings owns BCD Travel, which was formed when WorldTravel BTI and The Travel Company were integrated in 2006.

Tapping into the business travel market in the Middle East, BCD Travel acquired Apollo Travel in Yemen in early 2009. Later that year BCD expanded its operations in Greece by forming a joint venture with Amphitrion Holidays; the joint venture operates under the BCD Travel banner.

After trying to come up with a way to travel together, WorldTravel BTI's co-owners -- UK travel management giant Hogg Robinson and BCD Holdings -- decided to go their own ways in 2006. BCD Holdings wound up in control, and it subsequently acquired British corporate travel agency The Travel Company and integrated it with WorldTravel BTI. – less